I've heard two explanations: 1) there are very few competent english teachers in france (education system sucks) 2) they just don't feel pressured to learn it 3) they don't want to look like fools for speaking broken english etc etc etc

"Long story short... I gently unscrewed my Creative X-Fi and throw it against a wall. Then I plugged in to my Gigabyte motherboard's built in audio, enabled it in the bios, and haven't had any audio issues at all for coming up to two months now."